Quotes by James Laughlin - Page 1

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.
James Laughlin / Poet
Country
Sound
Vacuums
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I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
James Laughlin / Poet
Age
Difficulty
Poet
Thinking
Ages
Dates
Good Deal
Liking
Poets
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I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.
James Laughlin / Poet
Excuse
Knowing
Not Knowing
Reader
Thinking
World
No Excuse
Good Deal
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[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.
James Laughlin / Poet
Gertrude
Needed Someone
Plot
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With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
James Laughlin / Poet
Conceit
Ideas
Long
Needs
Poem
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Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
James Laughlin / Poet
Bells
Gertrude
Now And Then
Rings
Bell
Great Feel Know
Click
Stein
Strike
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I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.
James Laughlin / Poet
Book
Orchestra
Three
Two
Suppose
Votes
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
James Laughlin / Poet
Office
People
Promise
Writing
Hope Good Great
Develop
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It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.
James Laughlin / Poet
Camps
Concentration
Groups
Responsible
Thinking
Germans
Small Group
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We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
James Laughlin / Poet
Anthology
Particular
Prose
Sequence
Theme
Alternate
Attempt
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Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.
James Laughlin / Poet
Almost Nothing
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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
James Laughlin / Poet
Concrete
Six
Thinking
Years
Years Ago
Dead End
Period
Further
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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
James Laughlin / Poet
Mean
Ordinary
Reading
Thinking
Pedestrian
Poets
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There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
James Laughlin / Poet
Cases
Close Relationship
Likes
Discovers
Writers
Numerous
Whom
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I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.
James Laughlin / Poet
Differences
Reader
Reading
Sitting
Thinking
Puts
Whereas
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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
James Laughlin / Poet
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Book
Concrete
Wall
Visual
Belong
Oral
Poets
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
James Laughlin / Poet
Break Up
Smile
Ancient
Block
Brown
Monotony
Reader
Speech
Strange
Trying
Writing
Blocks
Startle
Occasionally
Plain
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Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.
James Laughlin / Poet
Sad
Authors
Grown
Headway
Personal Relationship
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The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
James Laughlin / Poet
Beaten
Destruction
Miserable
Terrible
German
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We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.
James Laughlin / Poet
Correspondence
Firm
Authors
Important Role
Material
Suggested
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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.
James Laughlin / Poet
Add
Reader
Reading
Recollection
Thinking
Two
Two Way Street
Poem
Suggest
Two-Way
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I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
James Laughlin / Poet
Agree
Attention
Depends
Impulse
Interesting
Thinking
Visual
Bad Thing
Towards
Shape
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I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
James Laughlin / Poet
Might
People
Thinking
Love Great People
Cam
Formative
Great Deal
Pound
Re-Read
Thomas
To Love
Whom
Williams
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